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Yoga Nidra

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Yoga Nidra is a blend of deep sleep, self-hypnosis and profound relaxation. What makes Yoga Nidra distinct is that although you appear to be doing noting there is action involved.

This paradox of appearing to do nothing yet being active evokes the question ‘how is this so?’

Like all yoga practice and life itself the answer to that question is experiential. And in this case the experience is the understanding of your true nature.

What is your true nature? Why has every sage in some way or another directed you to ‘Know Thyself’?

Again the answer to these questions is experiential as to know yourself is to be aware. This is self-evident once seen and what sees this is awareness.

In the light of understanding your true nature as awareness the Yoga Nidra paradox of being active while appearing to do nothing is also resolved because Awareness is active. In short Awareness acts and its action arises simultaneously with its seeeing as awareness; in other words seeing is doing.

Still another way that this can be stated is that your true nature is mind with the experiential understanding that mind really means ‘minding’ wherein there is the activity of being aware and the simultaneous action that arises with it.

In this light your are mind or Awareness as the openness where everything is seen and what is seen is the content as your experience of life. And like breathing and all other things in the universe ‘minding’ is fourfold as four degrees or wave levels that correspond to your four brainwave patterns.

The awesome power of this understanding is that by being what you already are, which means awareness, you can remain alert through all four degrees of your mental activity and because you are aware you can command energy to take form by using the principle of ‘energy follows awareness’ and what is called the ‘Law of Attraction’.

Yoga Nidra and Your Brainwaves

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Yoga Nidra takes you through all four of your natural brainwave patterns as you explore this process of deep yoga relaxation that approximates deep sleep.

Yoga Nidra not only approximates deep sleep it guides you along the same brainwave pathway that happens when you go from your waking state of beta brainwaves, then fall through the reverie of alpha brainwaves and stabilize into the delta brainwave pattern of deep sleep.

Although a session of yoga nidra may be just 30 minutes or so it provides the deep rest, restoration and other widespread health and wellness benefits associated with deep sleep because you brain actually naturally drops into this deepest brainwave pattern in the early stages of entering the sleep state. In some sessions your brainwave activity may actually increase from the slowest delta range to the rem stage associated with dreaming.

Brainwaves

In all cases the four brainwave patterns are available to you together with the four states of consciousness associated with them and your four brainwave patterns may be likened to the four states of matter. For example you know that water can be solid as ice, liquid as liquid water, gas as water vapor and in the plasma state as ionized water and that the distinction of each state or stage is dependent on the rate of vibration. In the same way the distinction in your brainwave activity and the corresponding stage of consciousness is directly related to the vibratory rate of your brain’s activity.

In this light the extraordinary impact of Yoga Nidra is that in addition to all of the health, wealth and creative benefits it provides it is also a means for you to explore these distinct stages of consciousness knowingly. In other words what makes Yoga Nidra so powerful is that although it approximates deep sleep, it is not deep sleep, because in the practice you develop the ability to remain being aware through all four brainwave patterns which means that the power of all four stages of consciousness are then available to you.

Yoga Nidra ~ Energy Waves

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It is often said that knowledge is power. This is simply not true because true power lies in the relationship of know how and acting out the how in the now. The relationship, like everything else, is a wave.

Most folks know what to do yet not everybody does what they know. For example most folks in what are called ‘first world’ countries know how important it is to eat healthily and stay fit yet vast numbers of people in these countries have health problems that are directly related to obesity and lack of proper exercise.

Some other examples: 1) most educated folks know that when they an iceberg at sea against the backdrop of a partially cloudy sky  that they are really observing four different forms of water as ice, liquid water, water vapor and ionized water; 2) when folks see an active volcano like Kilauea they know that they are seeing four different forms of the same thing as solid rock, liquid lava, gas vapors and plasma (fire; ionized materials); 3) people know that breathing is wave process of breathing air from outside your body, extracting the life-giving energy and expelling the wastes, (breathing earth, water and fire happens in the same manner – see Breathing Waves); and 4) modern scientists have demonstrated that the human brain has four basic brainwave patterns that correspond to four degrees or planes of consciousness … yet few folks act in ways that are in harmony with these examples of common knowledge.

Why?

The examples listed above and others like them are true yet folks have not made this knowledge their own by acting on it. Thus the energy wave breaks down. It is like a man who has a container of medication with a label on it that says ‘take two pills in the morning and two pills in the evening’ yet the man only ever reads the label and wonders why the medication does not have any impact on his health situation.

In this light the energy or power associated with knowledge is the energy wave of having the know how and acting out the how in the now such that the wave is complete and in order with the nature of things.

Yoga Nidra, the process of deep yoga relaxation, is a direct means for you to apply what you know by guiding you to breathe, relax and be aware through all four brainwave patterns.

Binary-Fourfold Waves: Brainwaves

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As described on the waves page of this blog the binary nature of things is a wave that is what it is through its motion and its motion is fourfold. Its fourfoldedness is akin to the four part beats that are common in music, quatrains of sacred literature, the seasons of the year and the wave action of high and low tides etc.

The harmonious interaction of its binary, complementary extremes unfolding as flow and ebb that folds back on itself forms an eightfold pattern . This structure of this eightfold pattern is an infinity symbol that is akin to the familiar octave in music and is spoke of in Buddhism as ‘The Noble Eightfold Way’, in yoga as ‘Astanga or Eight-Limbed Yoga’ and in all wisdom traditions that speak of ‘sevens’ as the spaces or intervals withing the ’8′ parts of an octave (like the notes of music that make up an ovctave as they link, the days of a week, and the 7 chakra or energy centres of a human body).

The same binary- fourfold pattern is clear in human brainwave activity as there are modern scientists have determined that there are four fundamental brainwave patterns associated with human brain activity (these are: beta, alpha, theta and delta; there are others like gamma yet these are considered to be high beta).

The binary nature of human brainwave activity is relationship as the intrinsic activity that is associated with extrinsic events that can be unfolding currently or it may be the actrivity of dreaming or imagination associated with some previous event.

Continued: See the post on Breathing Waves

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